112 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TREES. PART I. 
parts of the world, many rare and useful plants, which he endea- 
voured to naturalise in. this climate, by placing them in a soil 
and situation as near as possible to that to which they had been 
accustomed. By this means there is now growing in his garden 
in the open air, a wonderful and curious collection of plants 
from India, China, North and South America, Siberia, &c., 
which were formerly kept in the green-house, or ve hot-house. 
All the trees at Cranmore, except the chestnuts and oaks, were 
raised from seed planted by Mr. Templeton himself, and so 
great a variety of the natives of the forest, has perhaps never 
before been collected in so smalla place.” (Mag. Nat. H., i. 405.) 
Mr. Templeton corresponded with all the principal botanists of 
his time, and discovered several new plants in Ireland; among 
others the Rdsa hibérnica, and Orobanche rubra. The dimensions 
of some of the more remarkable trees and shrubs at Cranmore 
have been kindly sent to us by Mrs. Templeton. Among these 
are, a sweet chestnut, 60 ft. high, with a trunk 15 ft. in cireum- 
ference at one foot from the ground (the tree from which the 
place takes its name); Pinus’Cémbra, 24 ft. high; Pinus Banks- 
zana, 17 ft. high; Pinus Mugho, 11 ft. high; and Abies cana- 
dénsis, 16 ft. high. ‘There are, an Acer rubrum, 80 ft. high; a 
liquidambar, 15 ft. high; a Swedish juniper, 18 ft. high; and a 
Ptélea trifoliata, 26 ft. high. The first Rhododéndron maximum 
introduced into Ireland is supposed to have been one planted 
here, which attained a very great size, but died about three ~ 
years ago. ‘There is one still existing, which is 93 ft. high, and 
the circumference of the space covered by its branches is 37 ft. 
In the History of the County of Down, published in 1745 
(p. 60.), speaking of Bangor, the author says, ‘ the gardens are 
filled with noble evergreens of a great size, cut in various 
shapes, among which is an evergreen oak, which, though it 
grows as a shrub in most other places, is here a ¢ad/ tree, and of 
considerable girth.” At the same place there is now (1835) a 
very large mulberry tree, which is very uncommon in Ireland. 
There was also,one about the same size at Castle Ward. At 
Spring Vale, in the same county, is a very large cork tree, which 
is now in a state of decay. 
At Castle Ward, the seat of Viscount Bangor, is a flower- 
ing ash (O’rnus europea), 30 ft, high, and 6 ft. 4 in. in girt 
at 7ft. from the ground; it flowers frequently, but not every 
year. There are, also, an evergreen oak, with a trunk 9 ft. 6 in. 
in girt at 2 ft. from the ground, and 8 ft. 4 in. at 10 ft. from 
the ground; an arbutus, 5 ft. in girt at 2 ft. from the ground ; 
and a pinaster, 60 ft. high, and 8 ft. 10 in. in circumference at 
6 ft. from the ground: these trees are all close to a small bay 
or arm of the sea. There are, also, a silver fir, 66 ft. high, 8 ft. 
5 in. in girt, which it carries up to 30 ft.; a cedar of Lebanon, 
